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On some New or Bare Hi?idu and Muhammadan Coins. No. IV. 1 — By 
Dr. A. F. Rudolf Hoernle. 
(With Plate VI.) 
I. Bengal Coin. 
A notice of “ a rare gold coin of Jalalu-d-din Muhammad Shah 
of Bengal ” has been published by Mr. Richard Burn, in the Proceedings 
of this Society for August 1896, p. 108. The coin is in Mr. Burn’s 
possession. He writes to me as follows about its history : “ It was obtain¬ 
ed by me from the treasury of the Raja of Tamkuhi, an estate in the east 
of the Kasra district. The Raja could give no information as to when it 
came into the possession of his family. He is by caste a Buinhar, and 
he has property in the Gaya district in Bengal. I think it may pro¬ 
bably have been received from there, as I have never come across any 
other Bengal coins in the N.-YY. Provinces. It is a custom in the family 
for each of the more important servants to present a nazr of a gold 
mohur on the death of the head. The treasury, however, contained, 
besides this, no coin older than the Murshidabad mohurs, struck by the 
East India Company.” I fancy, it is unique, and therefore publish a 
facsimile of it on Plate VI, Ho. 1. Its weight is 160 grains. Neither the 
British Museum, nor any of the Museums in India possess a gold coin 
of this type, though silver coins are fairly common. 2 The latter are of 
several varieties, differing in ornamentation and legends: the British 
Museum possesses five varieties, of which variety A is figured in this 
Journal , Vol. XLII (p.267), on Plate VIII, No. 4, also Marsden, PI. 
XXXVII, No. DCCLXV, variety B, in the Br. Mus. Cat., PI. Ill, 
No. 77 and this Journal , Vol. XLII, PI. VIII, No. 6, and variety D, in 
this Journal, Vol. XLII, PI. VIII, No. 5. The present gold coin, in its 
ornamentation, differs from any of these varieties. In its legends, it 
1 For Nos I, II, and III, see ante, Yol. LYIII, of 1889, p. 30, Yol. LIX, of 1890, 
p. 169, and Yol. LXII, of 1893, p. 230. 
2 The British Museum possesses a gold coin of *a different (tuglm*) type, No. 81, 
. in its Catalogue 
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